Au Revoir, Entrepreneurs
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Au Revoir, Entrepreneurs
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#2I found this article interesting. Being french and living in London, I certainly witnessed the influx of french immigrants.
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#3Paywall.
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#4Paywall.
Incognito.
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#6> “Generally, if you are self-made man and earn money, you are looked at with suspicion,”
> there’s a deep-rooted feeling that you don’t show that you make money
> It’s more like, if someone has something I can’t have, I’d rather deprive this person from having it than trying to work hard to get it myself
This. A lot of people still don't understand money can me made. They see succesfull men and woman and assume the money must have been stolen instead of made.
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#7This is pretty clearly a knee jerk reaction by the New York Times to Hollande's wealth tax:
>He had taken that job after his attempt to start a business in Marseille foundered under a pile of government regulations and a seemingly endless parade of taxes. The episode left him wary of starting any new projects in France. Yet he still hungered to be his own boss. > >“A lot of people are like, ‘Why would you ever leave France?’ ” Mr. Santacruz said. “I’ll tell you. France has a lot of problems. There’s a feeling of gloom that seems to be growing deeper. The economy is not going well, and if you want to get ahead or run your own business, the environment is not good.”
A feeling that something just isn't quite right about the place, and it's better in London? Gee I wonder if they mean this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161151/With-Holland...
>Some wealthy businesspeople have also been packing their bags. While entrepreneurs fret about the difficulties of getting a business off the ground, those who have succeeded in doing so say that society stigmatizes financial success.
Yep. This article isn't about poor, plucky upstart rags-to-riches entrepreneurs at all. It's about manufacturing consent for slashing taxes on the ultrawealthy. The rich are pissed about Hollande's 75% tax and they want you to do something about it for them.
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#8> Taxes, Frustration, More Taxes
Uh, that's how I could describe my current situation in Germany. We were a little too successful last year and now the tax advance payments are endangering our liquidity.
It feels as if this year I had spent more time reading about taxes and regulations than working on the business.
Something is wrong when taxes become such a prominent part of your daily business life ...
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#9This is pretty clearly a knee jerk reaction by the New York Times to Hollande's wealth tax: >He had taken that job after his attempt to start a business in Marseille foundered under a pile of government regulations and a seemingly endless parade of taxes. The episode left him wary of starting any new projects in France. Yet he still hungered to be his own boss. > >“A lot of people are like, ‘Why would you ever leave…
The 75% wealth tax point was only a minor point in an article that expressed many many other points and anecdotes, and whose greater argument was that the entrepreneurial climate in France was poor. The fact that your argument focuses on this minor point in order to dismiss the whole point is rather telling about what consent is being manufactured here...
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#10> “Generally, if you are self-made man and earn money, you are looked at with suspicion,” > there’s a deep-rooted feeling that you don’t show that you make money > It’s more like, if someone has something I can’t have, I’d rather deprive this person from having it than trying to work hard to get it myself This. A lot of people still don't understand money can me made . They see succesfull men and woman and assume the…
"They see succesfull men and woman and assume the money must have been stolen instead of made."
Well, that's textbook Marxism, strong here in the US, I assume much stronger in France (after all the French Communist Party is still competitive to a fair degree, per Wikipedia was part of the "Plural Left" coalition that held the legislature from 1997–2002).
ADDED: and our path is particularly odd there: as has been joked for some time, there is no French word for entrepreneur.